Serious help needed

[rgshadow]

I am at wits end with these servers now, our specs are as follows:

Q6700 @ 2.66 GHZ x 4
4096 MB RAM
120GB Seagate 8MB cache 7200RPM
100 Mbit Connection
Windows Server 2003

We cannot stop the lag on our servers, no matter what I try I will come on in the day and people will be complaining of lag, when I go to the server whichever server has lag will be using around 95-100% CPU.

We are running the following on the cores:

Core1: 24 Slot 33 Tickrate (66 tickrate causes 100% locked) TF2 Server
Core2: ""
Core3: ""
Core4: DOD:S 24 Slot 33 Tickrate Server

Where is the cpu usage coming from? We are loosing our player base because of this

EDIT: The annoying thing is we use to have another machine that was similar spec just with a Q6600 that could handle 4x32 slot servers.

[rgshadow]

There is core1 with a full 24 slot 33 tickrate server.

EDIT: I failed to mention that is without plugins too, the plugins add a little more to usage.

[terry94]

Thats strange, does it lagg when its full, or just random?

[Mooga]

What FPS is the server running at?

[rgshadow]

(11-07-2009, 06:26 AM)Mooga Wrote:  What FPS is the server running at?

512

[Mooga]

Try lowering up the FPS?
Is anything else running?

[Arjen]

what is causing the cpu load? Maybe give this one a try:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms859476.aspx

... or install a linux distro

[rgshadow]

I've dropped the fps and I will update tomorrow with any progress.

Seems strange that one core can't handle a 512 fps server though?

[loopyman]

Try to keep game servers off core 0 ( first core ) as the operating system likes to use this core more often...

Also, don't run a 512FPS 33 tickrate server, there is no point. Lower it to 128 fps and you should be perfectly fine.
(honestly I would go 64fps on a 33tickrate server because with 33 tickrate you probably don't care about hit registration.)

[rgshadow]

(11-07-2009, 04:12 PM)loopyman Wrote:  Try to keep game servers off core 0 ( first core ) as the operating system likes to use this core more often...

Also, don't run a 512FPS 33 tickrate server, there is no point. Lower it to 128 fps and you should be perfectly fine.
(honestly I would go 64fps on a 33tickrate server because with 33 tickrate you probably don't care about hit registration.)

We dropped it to fps_max 300 today which gave it around 256 fps and it was lagging at 32 players.

[loopyman]

Is the processor to blame again? Is it maxed out on the core?

[rgshadow]

Turned out to be because it was being run from a control panel o.O

I won't name the control panel but we uninstalled it and it stopped lagging.

[terry94]

I won't name the control panel.. Why not, if you name it people will stop asking whats wrong until they find out they used the same as you did?

[loopyman]

Its probably the free one UGCC or something, We never had an issue with TCAdmin

[Beaverbeliever]

To be honest, I've used almost all the SRCDS panels and the only reason that would cause you any issues would be because of errors that a panel admin made.